Mumbai: This week the new WhatsApp upgrade for iOS brought in some very interesting features for users. WhatsApp essentially pushed five new features to the messaging app.
- In addition to media, users can now shares documents and PDF files using third party apps like Google Docs, iCloud and Dropbox.
- The upgrade also makes the app more customisable, with wider options for changing chat backgrounds.
- Developers also claim to have improved the design for browsing photos and videos in the new version.
- One of the most interesting upgrade is the ability to zoom in videos while they are playing.
- In addition to these features, WhatsApp also fixed the previous issue of the app taking up too much space on the iPhone.
Android users are yet to receive these upgrades, but they can access them on the beta version of the update on Google Play.
Now, if you give it a thought, what is it that you use an email for that your WhatsApp cannot do anymore. You can now share documents and images, you can source content saved on your cloud drives. You can broadcast messages to multiple contacts, instead of group mails you can send information on group chats.
Although you can’t send Blind Carbon Copies (BCC) on WhatsApp, you can still always use screen shots, which most of us already do.
Moreover, for people who access mails on computers/laptops for precision and accuracy, there is WhatsApp Web for you.
Therefore, it is safe to assume, that eventually, it is possible that WhatsApp Messengers may just take over the e-mail service. Although we are programmed to believe emails to be a much more formal mode of communication, there is no reason why WhatsApp couldn’t replace it.
